TIL OneNote can embed Spotify songs, control player

Today, I was trying to save a song from Spotify. However, I didn’t feel like saving it in Spotify. Despite all it’s virtues and features, I find their option to do so lacking.

Since I had OneNote open, I figured I could make a “section” for songs, and save them there. When I did I learned about one of the hidden gems of OneNote.

After pasting the link, OneNote embedded a Spotify player for the song. The player can start the song in your Spotify player and it can pause / resume the song. It made me curious about what other hidden features there are in OneNote.

Since we were in full “curious” mode we also figured out how to make a high quality gif. You can see OneNote do it’s thing below.